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ECB Warns There Is "Significant Risk Of Abrupt Market Reversal"

ECB Warns There Is "Significant Risk Of Abrupt Market Reversal"

One week after the BIS issued an unexpectedly stern, if completely ignored warning, that the surge in the USD is leading to an abrupt tightening in financial conditions around the globe, making the repayment of trillions in USD-denominated cross-border debt increasingly more difficult and suggesting that the Dollar index itself is the new "fear indicator", overnight another central bank, the European Central Bank warned that the risk of "abrupt" global asset market corrections "have intensified" on the back of rising political uncertainty, posing a threat to banks, stability and economi

Relentless Dollar Surge Continues: Asian Currencies Plunge To 7 Year Lows, Hitting Emerging Markets

Relentless Dollar Surge Continues: Asian Currencies Plunge To 7 Year Lows, Hitting Emerging Markets

While most global equity markets were subdued due to the US Thaksgiving holiday, the FX world was very busy overnight, marked by the relentless dollar surge on expectations of a rate hike not only in December but further in 2017, sending Asian currencies to the weakest level in 7 years: the Bloomberg-JPMorgan Asia Dollar Index reached 103.32, the lowest level since March 2009.

Sarajevo ‘War Hostel’ Offers Taste Of Siege Life

The Sarajevo ‘War Hostel’ takes tourists back in time to a dark period in Europe’s resent history during one of its bloodiest sieges. Tourists passing through Bosnia-Herzegovina are given the opportunity to experience the siege of the Bosnian capital during the Balkan conflict in the 1990s. Guests will spend their time in war-time conditions, sleeping on sponge mattresses under military blankets and reading newspaper clippings by candlelight. RT.com reports: The hostel is run by a family who survived the three-year-long siege.

Dollar Demand Hits Fevered Pitch: Yields Blow Out, Gold, Euros, Tech Stocks Sink

Dollar Demand Hits Fevered Pitch: Yields Blow Out, Gold, Euros, Tech Stocks Sink

Happy Thanksgiving eve. This is the day of the rope for Dollar bears, as demand for the greenback soars to new highs -- sending shockwaves throughout credit markets. The euro is trading with a 105 handle against the dollar, off by 0.7%.

German bund yields are rising again, in addition to the rest of Europe.

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